The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
1mo ago
The sight of the star-filled sky, a unifying human inheritance across thousands of years, has been all but lost to the majority of people who now live in urban and suburban settings. By one account 80% of Americans can no longer see the Milky Way. In 1994, when an earthquake knocked out power to much of Los Angeles in the middle of the night, some residents were so spooked by the appearance of the Milky Way above them that they called the police to report the strange phenomenon.
2w ago
1mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and can no longer live without it. We cannot even imagine life without machines. Yet machines have enslaved us. They determine our movements and our thoughts.
2mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.
3mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, but we have not invented the controls that belong with the machine.
3mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.
3mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents. The machine has possessed us, and we must either master it or perish.
3mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.
3mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.
3mo ago
We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge and the most intimate courage can possibly enable us to endure.
3mo ago
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